Jake Brennan

by, well, we still don't know who murdered her.

Most people believe Sid Vicious did it.

Others believe it was a drug dealer, a fixture on the downtown scene whose name shall go unmentioned here in this podcast because, well, he's still out there.

In any event, Nancy Spungen's death in room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street in October of 1978 is a mythic New York rock and roll event.

Now, Nancy wasn't that influential.

She was cool, I guess, but she wasn't in a band and she wasn't influential in the way that Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth was influential, is influential, or in the way that her Sex Pistols boyfriend Sid Vicious was influential.

She died in the Chelsea Hotel, like I said.

Now, if you walk outside the Chelsea and you continue on to this New York Sonic Youth cool thing walking tour that we're about to embark upon and you head over to 8th

Avenue and then south for about a mile, you're going to run into Bank Street.

And that's where Sid Vicious died.

It was a couple months later.

And I believe he died from a hot shot given to him from his mother in a mercy kill.

That happened at 63 Bank Street in the West Village.

And that happened, like I said, a few months later in February of 1979.

Now, Sid's death took place

steps away from 105 Bank Street.

And that's where John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived between the years 1973 and 1975.

So a couple of years before Sid Vicious died at Bank Street, John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived there.

1973 to 1975 this is the era when the fbi was tapping their phone and everyone remembers john and yoko living in the posh dakota building uptown but before they fully settled into the bourgeois lifestyle that so angered and triggered john's assassin mark david chapman john and yoko slummed it in a two-room one-bedroom apartment on bank street

That's where John entertained Black Panthers and IRA gunrunners.